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Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan).
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Discoveries in geography -- History.
Discoveries in geography -- Social aspects.
Outer space -- Exploration.
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Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan).
Discoveries in geography -- History.
Discoveries in geography -- Social aspects.
Outer space -- Exploration.
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Beyond the known : how exploration created the modern world and will take us to the stars / Andrew Rader.
by
Rader, Andrew (Andrew Alan).
Scribner, 2019.
Call #:
910.9 R127b
Subjects
Discoveries
in
geography
--
History.
Discoveries
in
geography
--
Social
aspects
.
Outer space
--
Exploration.
ISBN:
9781982123536 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
viii, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.
Contents:
Out of the cradle
--
Early wanderings
--
People of the sea
--
Antiquity
--
The classical world
--
Barbarians from the North
--
Early contacts
--
The other Mediterranean
--
China's age of exploration
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A sea route to India
--
Plunder and gold
--
Around the world
--
Empires of trade
--
Opening continents
--
Frontiers of science
--
Lands of ice and snow
--
To the sky
--
The space race
--
Seeing through robotic eyes
--
Into the future
--
The road to Mars
--
Becoming spacefaring
--
Going interstellar
--
Life on other worlds
--
The ultimate destination.
Summary:
"A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers."
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